# Hugging Face — SmolVLM - small yet mighty Vision Language Model

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: SmolVLM, SmolVLM-Base, SmolVLM-Synthetic, SmolVLM Instruct
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1792-smolvlm-small-yet-mighty-vision-language-model

Hugging Face introduces SmolVLM, a 2B vision language model that is small, fast, memory-efficient, and fully open-source. The release includes three model variants (Base, Synthetic, Instruct), all model checkpoints, VLM datasets, training recipes, and tools under the Apache 2.0 license.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm:

> This blog post introduces SmolVLM, a 2B VLM, SOTA for its memory footprint. SmolVLM is small, fast, memory-efficient, and fully open-source. All model checkpoints, VLM datasets, training recipes and tools are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

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